Desire Quote by Orson Scott Card

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if…

— Orson Scott Card

In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless.

— Hugh MacLennan

a human being is never what he is but the self he seeks.

— Octavio Paz

Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.

— Octavio Paz

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of…

— Eric Hoffer

Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea…

— Albert Schweitzer

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

— Albert Camus

No one can have all he desires.

— Seneca the Younger

There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he…

— Blaise Pascal

If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to…

— Hermann Hesse

A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.

— Ayn Rand